To:V. A. KARPINSKY

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DearFriend,

Ihave a favour to ask of you. Is Volume One of Rubakin’sAmong
Booksavailable in your library or can you get it for me in
Switzerland?

Bythe way, wasn’t it you who sent me Volume
One?[2]If it was, then I did not refund your postal expenses!! And you
didn’t remind me. Drop me a line, please, and I’ll send you the money for
both volumes. (I need Volume I for only a short time.)

Doyou always getPut Pravdy?

Whathas happened to that young Bolshevik, the Wittmarist, that nervous
vegetarian I met at your place a year
				 ago?[1]

Couldany of your acquaintances travel to Vienna as delegates attheir own expense(we have no money,
alas!)?[3]Look around, find out. We must make up a delegation.

Allthe very best. Regards to Comrade Olga. N. K. also sends you both
her regards.

Yours,Lenin

Wl. Uljanow.Poronin(Galizien), Autriche.

[1]Areference to A. F. Ilyin-Zhenevsky.—Ed.

[2]Apparentlythis refers to Volume II of N. Rubakin’s bookAmong
Booksreviewed by Lenin in the journalProsveshcheniyeNo. 4
for April 1914 (see present edition, Vol. 20, pp. 259–61). Lenin, as his
letter shows, did not have Vol. I.

[3]Thisrefers to a trip to attend the international socialist congress
which was to he held in Vienna in August 1914.